Nest has announced that it will be bringing its connected thermostat and smoke detector to more countries in Europe, with initial availability across France, Netherlands, Belgium and Ireland set to commence by the end of this month. Customers in these countries will be able to buy Nest's products from over 400 retail locations at launch, with an additional 150 stores set to be added by the end of the year.
Although Nest's products are available only in the US, Canada and the UK, the company mentioned on its blog that its thermostats have been installed in over 120 countries across the globe. On the utilities side of things, Nest is partnering with Direct Energie, Essent and Lampiris in addition to nPower in the UK.
EU residents, are you excited about the imminent availability of Nest thermostats?
Source: Nest
Reader comments
Nest launching in the EU by the end of the month
Not at that price I’m not. I promise that these things will be ridiculously priced.
Their prices are ridiculously high, and considering somewhere in the future they will possibly share my data with their parent, the advertising company, I'm ok with my current 90's thermostat.
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To be fair , the future is going towards data collection. And if it's to user benefit, who cares?
Nest has been the biggest disappointment, especially as far as updates to its programming. Read the Nest blogs and you'll see feature after feature that needs attention, but nothing forthcoming. Have you ever seen a thermostat that doesn't easily show you the current temperature? How about one that can manually be set to fractions of a degree, but the programming can only handle single degree increments.
The automatic away feature does a good job of reducing energy use when you are away from home, but if you're sitting in another room for any length of time, you have to remember to get up and walk by the unit to keep it from slipping into away mode.
The handiest feature - being able to remotely access the device so when you arrive home at the airport you can turn off away mode and your home is ready at the desired temperature when you arrive home.
Would I buy one again - probably not. Its high cost doesn't outweigh the benefits.